Weekend Games

[Jibbish]

Never being so pissed off with a point in my whole life. Our problem is once again scoring goals.

MOre a point gained for you and points dropped for them really?

[Mexel]

MOre a point gained for you and points dropped for them really?

No not at all. If you miss a penalty hit the post have 2 or 3 1 on 1s with the keeper, you should win the game. I cant fault us though i thought we played great again just need some power upfront. Shay Given is amazing.

[lBlue]

No not at all. If you miss a penalty hit the post have 2 or 3 1 on 1s with the keeper, you should win the game. I cant fault us though i thought we played great again just need some power upfront. Shay Given is amazing.

Should of beaten us. We were crap. Good teams can play crap though and still pick up the points.

[Mexel]

Should of beaten us. We were crap. Good teams can play crap though and still pick up the points.

Yeah i was quite shocked, that the first time you have played like that this season? You wernt exactly awful, just wernt the Man City i have seen so far this season. But Shay Given is somthing special lol!!

[Immenseman]

we all know shay given has been their most important buy up to date.

[CHA!NGANG]

And probably cheapest. £8 Mill I think. Money will spent to be honest as he keeps you in most games such as the one on the weekend. The one downside I think we have on the top English teams is our Keeper. Cech, VDS, Riena, Given are all top keepers. Almunia is well... not. If we can buy a decent keeper it will help us a lot. There are some very good young keepers out there like: Akinfeev, Lloris, Adler, Neuer, Asenjo. If we can buy one of them I'll be happy. I'd be willing to bet that United go for one of them either this season or the next

Anyway, only a few players really turned up for City the other day like Given, Bridge, Zabaletta (sp.), SWP and maybe De Jong/Kompany but Lescott, Tevez, RSC, Bellamy and Barry didn't preform really.

[Immenseman]

Lescott is probably their worst buy in the last year or so lol. Every time I've seen him he has been awful, not like he was only a few million either.

[Geraint]

And probably cheapest. £8 Mill I think. Money will spent to be honest as he keeps you in most games such as the one on the weekend. The one downside I think we have on the top English teams is our Keeper. Cech, VDS, Riena, Given are all top keepers. Almunia is well... not. If we can buy a decent keeper it will help us a lot. There are some very good young keepers out there like: Akinfeev, Lloris, Adler, Neuer, Asenjo. If we can buy one of them I'll be happy. I'd be willing to bet that United go for one of them either this season or the next

Anyway, only a few players really turned up for City the other day like Given, Bridge, Zabaletta (sp.), SWP and maybe De Jong/Kompany but Lescott, Tevez, RSC, Bellamy and Barry didn't preform really.

You don't buy young in the goalkeeper department. Asenjo was awful against Chelsea. Good in the future, yes but not someone you'd want in your team.

[CHA!NGANG]

You don't buy young in the goalkeeper department. Asenjo was awful against Chelsea. Good in the future, yes but not someone you'd want in your team.

You say that but with the right coaching then he'd be better. What's better, wait for Athletico to train him up to a reasonable quality, then buy him and have him have to adjust to the PL. Or buy him now, train him up yourself, better than Athletico would do because lets face it, Arsenal and United have better trainers than Athletico and it's better for him to come young and adjust early. I'm not saying start him yet as VDS might have a couple years left in him.

Also makes sense financially. Buy them young, buy them cheaper

I agree with GK's its better to have experience but then again look at Cech. He was at his peek when he was 23/24. Yes I know his injury hindered him big time and he's still a decent keeper but he was very good at 23 years old and Akinfeev, Lloris, Adler and Neuer are around that age. Asenjo is a bit too young at the moment, but if a PL big side buys him now then trains him and plays him in a couple years it might be better.

[Geraint]

You say that but with the right coaching then he'd be better. What's better, wait for Athletico to train him up to a reasonable quality, then buy him and have him have to adjust to the PL. Or buy him now, train him up yourself, better than Athletico would do because lets face it, Arsenal and United have better trainers than Athletico and it's better for him to come young and adjust early. I'm not saying start him yet as VDS might have a couple years left in him.

Also makes sense financially. Buy them young, buy them cheaper

I agree with GK's its better to have experience but then again look at Cech. He was at his peek when he was 23/24. Yes I know his injury hindered him big time and he's still a decent keeper but he was very good at 23 years old and Akinfeev, Lloris, Adler and Neuer are around that age. Asenjo is a bit too young at the moment, but if a PL big side buys him now then trains him and plays him in a couple years it might be better.

The five you've named aren't at bad clubs themselves. Going to take quite a bit of money to prize away a young goalie with loads of potential. Cech's been good for a while, yes. He was player of the tournament in the UEFA U-21 Championship. Arsenal need a good goalie now not a goalie who'll become good in a few years.